Table 288.

Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006–07

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
All fields, total	604,607	399,267	62,574	34,822	36,134	3,575	68,235	238,189	151,358	17,907	12,362	16,451	1,264	38,847	366,418	247,909	44,667	22,460	19,683	2,311	29,388
Agriculture and natural resources	4,623	3,469	158	139	147	39	671	2,174	1,633	52	62	57	13	357	2,449	1,836	106	77	90	26	314
Architecture and related services	5,951	3,902	301	391	390	24	943	3,304	2,243	156	217	159	10	519	2,647	1,659	145	174	231	14	424
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	1,699	995	175	163	128	27	211	617	365	49	61	53	16	73	1,082	630	126	102	75	11	138
Biological and biomedical sciences	8,747	5,525	505	392	989	37	1,299	3,568	2,375	134	132	382	20	525	5,179	3,150	371	260	607	17	774
Business	150,211	87,416	19,746	7,966	12,705	806	21,572	84,115	51,925	7,152	4,285	7,204	420	13,129	66,096	35,491	12,594	3,681	5,501	386	8,443
Communications, journalism, and related programs	6,773	4,404	714	332	374	27	922	2,153	1,489	166	93	120	9	276	4,620	2,915	548	239	254	18	646
Communications technologies	499	203	63	17	33	12	171	332	142	41	15	16	8	110	167	61	22	2	17	4	61
Computer and information sciences	16,232	6,342	1,043	479	2,038	46	6,284	11,985	5,012	641	368	1,406	39	4,519	4,247	1,330	402	111	632	7	1,765
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	176,572	135,539	18,361	11,857	4,731	1,140	4,944	40,164	31,068	3,843	2,695	953	284	1,321	136,408	104,471	14,518	9,162	3,778	856	3,623
Engineering	29,472	12,415	924	1,131	3,502	70	11,430	22,872	10,117	625	851	2,464	51	8,764	6,600	2,298	299	280	1,038	19	2,666
Engineering technologies1	2,690	1,395	229	135	270	16	645	1,993	1,059	148	90	197	12	487	697	336	81	45	73	4	158
English language and literature/letters	8,742	7,119	435	395	312	66	415	2,867	2,406	90	135	85	23	128	5,875	4,713	345	260	227	43	287
Family and consumer sciences	2,080	1,489	233	101	88	5	164	292	207	28	12	12	1	32	1,788	1,282	205	89	76	4	132
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,443	1,960	86	530	129	12	726	1,058	647	30	138	34	5	204	2,385	1,313	56	392	95	7	522
Health professions and related clinical sciences	54,531	38,847	5,632	2,875	4,005	358	2,814	10,636	7,067	886	619	1,052	69	943	43,895	31,780	4,746	2,256	2,953	289	1,871
Legal professions and studies	4,486	1,397	257	192	232	15	2,393	2,335	784	95	78	110	7	1,261	2,151	613	162	114	122	8	1,132
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,634	2,792	311	205	161	20	145	1,352	1,048	96	72	68	7	61	2,282	1,744	215	133	93	13	84
Library science	6,767	5,651	288	351	311	37	129	1,309	1,090	36	72	73	8	30	5,458	4,561	252	279	238	29	99
Mathematics and statistics	4,884	2,342	169	163	483	15	1,712	2,859	1,430	87	103	250	9	980	2,025	912	82	60	233	6	732
Mechanics and repair technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies	202	178	11	4	7	2	0	178	162	8	2	4	2	0	24	16	3	2	3	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	4,762	3,306	363	260	280	38	515	1,703	1,130	125	96	93	12	247	3,059	2,176	238	164	187	26	268
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	4,110	3,233	374	134	113	27	229	2,116	1,639	214	64	51	15	133	1,994	1,594	160	70	62	12	96
Philosophy and religious studies	1,716	1,388	66	66	64	5	127	1,087	876	38	43	43	2	85	629	512	28	23	21	3	42
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,839	3,549	157	185	331	22	1,595	3,556	2,171	74	116	173	13	1,009	2,283	1,378	83	69	158	9	586
Precision production	5	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	21,037	15,002	2,719	1,523	902	139	752	4,265	3,196	470	262	166	35	136	16,772	11,806	2,249	1,261	736	104	616
Public administration and social service professions	31,131	19,579	5,733	2,677	1,334	328	1,480	7,758	4,829	1,211	613	355	59	691	23,373	14,750	4,522	2,064	979	269	789
Security and protective services	4,906	3,339	929	349	139	40	110	2,315	1,674	322	160	85	17	57	2,591	1,665	607	189	54	23	53
Social sciences and history	17,665	11,240	1,287	952	876	110	3,200	8,577	5,651	486	428	336	47	1,629	9,088	5,589	801	524	540	63	1,571
Social sciences	14,521	8,597	1,150	801	797	85	3,091	6,879	4,192	421	354	302	35	1,575	7,642	4,405	729	447	495	50	1,516
History	3,144	2,643	137	151	79	25	109	1,698	1,459	65	74	34	12	54	1,446	1,184	72	77	45	13	55
Theology and religious vocations	6,446	4,794	600	213	275	20	544	3,909	2,945	290	126	148	14	386	2,537	1,849	310	87	127	6	158
Transportation and materials moving	985	767	78	55	32	9	44	828	652	64	45	26	6	35	157	115	14	10	6	3	9
Visual and performing arts	13,767	9,687	627	590	752	63	2,048	5,910	4,325	250	309	275	31	720	7,857	5,362	377	281	477	32	1,328

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related sup­port services and Personal and culinary services. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2007. (This table was prepared July 2008.)